It's cool to see people reaching their culture for Jesus in whatever way they can. You can tell that Lacrae is passionate about seeing Jesus worshiped and lives changed. When I went to see him perform live, I felt slightly uncomfortable jumping up and down with the rest of the crowd, but, when I looked around me and saw hundreds of people praising Jesus and they were preaching the Gospel in a way the whole crowd grasped—I was amazed.
Who are the people around you that need Jesus?
What does it look like to be a comic book geek for Jesus? A Nascar Dad for Jesus? A YMCA volunteer for Jesus?
On Tuesday, February 27, 2008 at the Resurgence National Conference, Jim Gilmore spent sometime answering questions from the audience. Please listen as Jim seeks to help pastors understand how to correctly apply his work with businesses to church life, as well as how the church can be a light in our "experience economy" without becoming man-centered and a host of other practical issues related to business, church and how the two should and should not overlap.
On Tuesday, February 27, 2008 at the Resurgence National Conference, Jim Gilmore spent sometime answering questions from the audience. Please watch as Jim seeks to help pastors understand how to correctly apply his work with businesses to church life, as well as how the church can be a light in our "experience economy" without becoming man-centered and a host of other practical issues related to business, church and how the two should and should not overlap.
On Tuesday, February 26, 2008 at the Resurgence National Conference, Pastor Mark Driscoll emceed a Q & A time with Pastors John Piper and Matt Chandler. Please listen as Mark, John, and Matt discuss the dangers and struggles that pastors face, keeping the church focused on Jesus and not the men leading it, false gospels, maintaining humility in the midst of authority, accountability, contextualization, racial diversity and how much Pastor John can bench-press.
On Tuesday, February 26, 2008 at the Resurgence National Conference, Pastor Mark Driscoll emceed a Q & A time with Pastors John Piper and Matt Chandler. Please watch as Mark, John, and Matt discuss the dangers and struggles that pastors face, keeping the church focused on Jesus and not the men leading it, false gospels, maintaining humility in the midst of authority, accountability, contextualization, racial diversity and how much Pastor John can bench-press.
In 1967 sociologist Peter Berger, published The Sacred Canopy. He argued that a culture is held together by a number of shared religious notions that form an unquestioned (often unconscious) "sacred" covering that includes common ideas of goodness, beauty and justice. For centuries Western Civilization has lived under the canopy of Christendom. But that canopy now lies in rags on the cultural floor. A new covering floats over our heads.
International travel has helped me see this. I just returned from a trip to Colombia, France and Holland. In Holland we discussed "The New Europe," which is no longer Christian. My lecture, "Neo-Paganism: Step-child of Secular Humanism," suggested that the new Europe will be either Moslem or Pagan. There I met a South African theologian who noticed how much the "native" regime in the "New South Africa" fosters ancestor worship. In France, the students agreed that Cartesian French secular humanism was breathing its last.
On February 25-27, 2008 Resurgence hosted our National Conference titled Text & Context at Mars Hill Church's Ballard Campus. In this tenth session from the Conference, watch as Jim Gilmore unpacks more emerging trends in culture, where he see the marketplace expanding and shifting in coming years and how the church can is uniquely positioned to proclaim the gospel to people who are searching.
On February 25-27, 2008 Resurgence hosted our National Conference titled Text & Context at Mars Hill Church's Ballard Campus. In this fifth session from the Conference, watch as Matt Chandler discusses what it's like try to preach the Gospel to a sub-culture that thinks they already know the Gospel.